[Bug binutils/29923] Renaming symbols with objcopy does not affect the drectve Section

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29923

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |nickc at redhat dot com

--- Comment #3 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Denys,

  Yeah - I think that this might be a case of a scenario which is just not
  supported by the binutils.  Renaming symbols is a slightly dodgy thing to
  do at the best of times, and if extra information about them is held outside
  of the symbol table then I do not see objcopy as being able to do much
  about that.  

  Basically what I am saying is that the BFD library has enough knowledge about
  .drectve sections to be able to process them when performing a final link, 
  but it does not have the ability to update their contents when performing
  other kinds of tasks.

  I am assuming that you would argue that the BFD library *ought* to have
  this ability, along with the ability to display the directives inside the
  .drectve section when running objdump or the like.  Not a simple task.

  I am happy to leave this PR open in the hopes that someone will take and
  interest in it and have a go at adding the necessary code.  But I doubt
  that that will be me.  At least not in the short term.  Sorry.

Cheers
  Nick

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